August 11, 1897 (4 pages)

4 << I gee _ who lately arrived bere from the State .” at'e point 25 feet from the mouth 0: time to turn ina fire alarm from any Pras or eee: ey BROWN & CALKINS. N, P. BROWN. Fifty Cents Per Month. . A Preigt and a Passe Entered at the Postofiice at Nevada City Class matter, : BRIEF MENTION, Hinor Notes and Comments of Local: PO uamyeaana ad ex P. G. Scaiden, the groceryman, received a carload of fine potutoes today. ' Grant. Dorsey’s condition is improving and he will probably be all right in a few days. . George Adair way out hunting yesterday near the Central House and killed a fine buck deer, Electric lights were put in at Glenbrook Park today, in. the dance _ pavilion, bar and other places. The morning train to the circus took 80 grown persons and 40 children ftom this city. » Charles Maddrill, lately of this cily, is putting up a building at North San Juan and will open a grocery store: Fred Cooper is having a large barn built on Piety Hill near Cooper Bros,’ lumber yard, A number of fine horses. arrived at Glenbrook Park today from Sacramento to take part in the races next week, : The uvew ten-inch pump rods furnished by M. L. & D. Marsh for the Brunswick mine are said to be of the best quality of material and as fine as any ever cut inthe county. L. L. Myers and ‘Richard Thomas, of the “Malakoff mine, near Bloomfield, have bonded a quartz ledge adjoining the Boss mine, uear Sweetland. Prospecting work will soon begin: Next Friday a contract will be let to sink the main shaft at the Reddik mine 100 feet deeper. The Reddik is situated two miles and # half:from this city, on the Blue Tent road. _ Edward Harris of Hill’s Flat was ar-. rested at Grass Valley last night on a charge of battery. He struck a Chinaman over the head with a stick of wcod. Harris was sentenced this morn_ ing to serve 120 days in the county jail. G. J. Schmidt and Charles W. Hil) leave tonight or early in the morning for a camping trip to thé: lakes and to sierra Valley. They are well equipped and prepared to have @ good time. © Albert Cook has sold his barber shop at the Union Hotel to George Stevens, of Washington. Mr. Cook intends , g0inz to the Klondyke country. : ‘ 5 Ooo eee b Klondyke. _ A dispatch from Redding says that J. B. and R. B. Graves. boarded the. overland train last night having in their possession $42,000 in gold, the result of four days’ work on Morrison Galch, a tributary of Coffee creek beyond Corville in Trinity county. They have been mining on the gulch for the past year and have found several pockets, One yielded $4000 and others] from $8 to $300. August 4th they found their tunnel and 12 feet from the surface, a large pocket of «pure gold. In four days they took out 168 pound: avoirdupois weight. The largest piece was three feet long, two feet wide anc. five inches thick. Great care was take: but it was broken in getting it out. The Klondyke region is not in it witl such mines, and the above statemen: only proves once more that . Californi: . : is the richest gold country in the world. Denying the Marrlage. At Los Angeles Monday Judge Aller appointed Jno. T. Jones administrator The ‘attorneys representing Mr. Jones sprang a new point by adding to their petition a-denial of any niarriage having existed between Mrs. Louisa Oreede and the tate N. OC. Something to Remember. People who bave océasion’ at any _0f the boxes should remember to pull 36TH YRAR—No. 11383” : SCRIPT,. @ é ENGINEER GEARY KILLED IN -. landlady, an impoverished lodger and {a bottle of carbolic acid were the priny gether This Sade i Aftemoo, s ~~ THR SMASH UP, A Mob Breaks Intoa County Jail After a Prisoner. MRS. SHURTE AND TWO SONS PERISH IAPR Cat His. Wife’s Throat and Then Shot _ Himself, The Steamer Topeka Arrires From Alaska With the Crew of . the Mexice. Special to the DAILY TRANSCRIPT. Ratal Railroad. Collision. Sacramento, August: 11.—This :-afternoon at 1: 30°o'clock a serious railroad collision occurred in the yard at Marysville between a freight train from Oroville and a passenger’ train’ hound for Oroville. Both engines were badly damaged and the trains derailed. Engineer Geary was killed. He has a wife and daughter living in this city. Hung bya Mob. AsHevitte, N. O., August 11.—A_ mob of citizens broke in the doors atthe county jail last night to . get Bob Brackett, the colored: man: who assaulted Miss Henderson. They found that the negro had been spirited . away by. the deputies. Some of the’ mob pursued the officers and overtaking them took Brackett and hung him. The Governor has been called on to: erder put the militia. as io ae Died From Suffocation.: -ABLINGTON, Oregon, August 12.-—The dwelling of C. A. Shurte was burned about midnight and Mrs. Shurte and two sons perished, the smoke suffocating them. Mr. Shurte made a heroic effort to save his family but could not. [t is feared that he will lose his reason. A woman'in the second story’ of. the -house jumped from a window and ‘was saved, ; " Mader and Snicide, Oxioaco, August 11.—Charles Clifford nurdered his wife today: by dutting her *hroat with a razor and then ‘Bhot:himself.” Olifford wasa ‘baker, aud’ the tragedy, happened at his home. ‘It is ‘said that he was jealous. of a policenan who had been to his wife, From Alaska, . Spatrie, August 11th.—The amer Topeka arrived this morning . with the srew of the Mexico, which was wrecked near Sitka. The captain is‘ reticent sbout the accident which occurred last Thursday morning. From; the time the vessel struck the rocks until she sunk beneath the waves was about two ‘hours. The captain and pilot were the iast to leave her. Another Tragedy. Prrrssuras, Aug. 11.—A hard-hearted cipals in a tragedy here yesterday. Alvin Baldwin lived in the boarding house of Mrs. Kate Hildebrandt. For a long time he had not been in a flourishing financial condition and had ran behind in his board bill. _Despairing of getting out of bis landlady’s debt, mude love to her and asked her to marry him. Mrs. Hildebrandt did not regard the proposal favorable. She ‘Seemed to think that she would rather have Baldwin’s money than himself. So she said that she would not listen to him until he had first paid her all he owed. A short time later Baldwin was trouble. The system is in working . ' = found in his room dead, a partly empty carbolic acid bottle beside him telling _. Russia in 1867, At that time the Polly _[ 9nd the flesh fél! off in chunks as it paying attentions Chances in Olt Rotten Hulks, SRatrix, Augast 11.—The steamer Eliza Anderson, an old-fashioned sidewheeler, buiit in Portland, Oregon, in dyke, via St. Michaels, with 150 passengers. She is:a wooden verse) and for sixteen years was out of service, one year of which time she was lying at the bottom of the sound. The Eliza Anderoke, the latter having in tow the small steamer Merwin, the schooner W. J. Bryan, and the dismantled steamer Polly, which will be used/as a barge on the Yukon river, plying between Daw‘son City and St. Michaels. No one ‘knows how old the Polly is. Her original name was. “Politkofeky,” and she was included in the purchase of Alaska by the United States from was a Russian gun boat, located at States to the Port Blakeley Mil) Gomnearly 4000 miners have sailed from Seattle for Yukon and about 2000 more have sailed from other points north and south, ; } Dead in a, Furnace Tank. . Brumenam, Ale, August 11.—Early yesterday morning a negro boy passing by a sloss furnace near Birmingham saw the body of a white man floating in the large open water tank at that place. When the body was taken out it was discovered to be that of J. F. Webb, a painter. In the tank were a new pair of women’s shoes and also a’ pair of men’s, [he body was cooked, was drawn from the vat. Webb was last seen alive the night before on. his way home, with two pairs of shoes unThe sloss furnace is somewhat out of his way, a fact that makes his friends suspect he was murdered and his body oe into the tank. Pomped Her Full of Wind. Prrrspurc, August 11.— Mrs. Geo. Ruthman, of Beaver Falls, heard a peculiar noise on the back porch of ber residence. She found her two sons, one aged 7 and the other 1 year old ina corner. The baby was on his back. The elder brother had inserted the tube of a.bicycle pump in the baby’s mouth and \was filling him with wind as fast as he\could work the pump. ‘The infant was unconscious and its little stomach’.was inflated like a balloon. . The mether: pulled the tube from the child’s‘mouth and the air followed with a Sharp sound like the exhaust of an air brake on a railway train. The baby recovered consciousness. Secretary Bliss Gives Warning. Wasiinoton, August 11.—Secretary Bliss has taken cognizance of the rush tothe Klondyke gold fleids and Alaska and has issued the following warning to the general public: ‘ “To.\whom it may concern: In view of information received at this Department'that persons with 2000 tons. of baggage and freight.are now waiting at the entrance of White Horse Pass iu Alaska for an opportunity to cross the mountains to the Yukon River, and that many more are preparing to join them, I deem it necessary to call the attention of all who contemplate making that trip to the exposure, privations, sufferings' and danger incidént thereto at this advanced period ‘of the season, even if they should succeed: in crossing the mountains. E “To reach Dawson City, when over the Pass, seven hundred miles of difficult navigation on the Yukon River, without adequate means of transportation, will still be before them, and it is doubtfal if the journey can be completed. before’ the river is closed with ice. : “Iam moved to draw public notice to these conditions: by the gravity of the possible consequences to people detained in the mountainous wilderness during five or six months of an Arctic Winter, where no relief can reach them however great the need. *O. N. BLISS, jSecretary of the Interior.” _ -Howe Dead. Lonvon, August 11—Dr. Walsham Howe, author of the Queen’s jubilee hymn, Bishop of Wakefield, ‘died in “. publication in their papers of the famthe early. fifties, left today for Klon‘80n will be convoyed by the tug HolySitka. She was later sold by the United pany on Pnget Sound. Up to this date . der his arm, one of them for his wife. . have a gold currency: A circular issued from that date it ‘pce nind to ae Med 8 irass Valley last evening. This morn' . month, and to pay a fine of five yen, for ing they examined the mine and noted _. insulting the Ministers of State, by the. the progrees of work there and lett “on ous “Song. of March.” The Japanese as i the export duty, 6, _ Boston, August 11.—President Macey f the Fitchburg railway died suddenly . yesterday afernoon. = ‘ Tt has been discovered that a big defalcation has occurred in the office of the company, It was considered 4 strange coincidence that Auditor Anthony should suddenly die the very day that experts began an examination of the books, and it is considered cey should die suddenly the very day the defalcation was nounced, : eo ~ PERSONAL POINTERS, J, O. Dodge is ap from Anburn. K. Olsen is over from Towa Hill. Ed Clymo is over from . William Maltman left this morning G. W. Morris of Newcastle is here a visit. : : J. Murphy came over from You Bet last evening. Henry Hosken has returned from @ trip to the Bay. 3 : Mrs. Richards of Lone Pine will leave for her home Friday. Mrs. H. Williamson is visi friends at Sacramento. : _ J.L, Beois of St. Lonis arrived here on last evening’s: train. ‘Mrs. 8. W. Fous.ot Berkeley arrived here last evening ona visit, Miss Florence Snow of You Bet. is . here on a visit to her sister. L, A. Gross, the mining man, arrived here from Sacramento yesterday. -Elweli Holland has gone toSan Francisco to attend a business college. down from North Bloomfield today. M. Bestandig and W. C. Brown of San Francisco are in towu, Captain George Nihell will. leave tomorrow for Santa Cruz. . F. Johnson of Jamestown camé in on last evening’s train. ‘Miss Lizzie Richards left Saturday to resume her duties as teacher of the} Globe school, Lime Kiln district. L. A. Gross and W. H. Jones ‘of Sacramento came in on last evening’s train. ‘Mrs. B. Lutz returned home last evening from a visit to San Francisco. Charles Schutz of San Francisco came in on the morning train. Charles 0. McIver of Sam: Francisco arrived here last e morning for the Empire mine in Sierra county, eS , Mrs. OC. E. Mulloy has rétnrned from a visit to San Francisco and Oakland. Harry Evans, who has been’ visiting at San Francisco, has returned® home: journing at Blue Canyon,Placer county: C. Redmond, D. C. Ray ané@ E. 8. Fisher of Chicago arrived here on. last evening’s train. . Mrs. J. Schmidt Sr., who has been: to San Prancisco for a visit, returned home last evening, Albert Keller, who now resides at Graniteville with bia, father, is here spending a few days, , Mrs. Lizzie Valentine and daughter Miss Blinor, left today for a visit to relatives at Oakland. ‘ Mrs. 8S. Allen left on the noon train for Pacific Grove for a visit to friendg. J. McIntosh left on the noon train for Sacramento: Misses Ruby and Lella Hyer retarned yesterday from a visit to Pleasant Vatley. P. Claudius of San Francisco ie here in the interests of the Cyrus Noble Whisky, for which 4. Isoard & Son are’ agentsi Mrs. Henry Lane and children, who have been making an extended visit at San Francisco, returned home. last evening. Mrs. E.0. Huntingon arrived at San Francisco last night from New York. She intends coming to this city seon to open ‘up the ola Banner mine. _ James Rosewall, wife and mother, Mrs, A. Rosewall, left on the noon train for a pleasure trip to Sap -FranIsaac White and wife of Illinois, who} have been visiting Mr. White's brother, left yesterday for their home. William White and daughter, Miss Minnie, acthe story of the manuer of his death. Treland yesterday. next Japan will ill pay gold for Bank Tbe, pabllbere ad Government bas decided to totally!’ . . Afire equally suspicious that President MaConcise Chronic, of Various; Rolls’ for Gold Valley. us Mrs. L. L. Myers and daughter came} Frank Worthington and wife-are: so-} * turning home. " ere Distinguished Visitors. _ J. Ls, Flood, W. L. Fritz, James E. Wash and R. V. Dey, whoare interested ‘. in the Allison Ranch mine, arrived at the noon train for San Francisco, uy t Spontaneous Combustion. wi today at Sparks’ carpet-cles quickly extinguished. The fire started in @ pile of old waste and rags that were saturated with furniture polish and turpentine. It was a close call for ® conflagration. : Advertised Letters. . ‘The following ia a list of the letters: Temaining in the Postoffice at Nevada City, August llth:aac Russell Carli ff not. called for in fifteen days letters will be sent tothe dead letter office. Parties calling for any: of these letters will Please say “advertised,” and pay a fee of one cent for each letter. J. E. CARR, Postmaster: Hear My Complaint. Tam no longer sweet. In —_— time I was made clean and weet , By Mr. B. B. in his cosy retreat. Now Ihave grown old Iam sour as sour can be, Never to be made Sweet"again. See! ; VINEGAR. Opposite Fire House, Broad street. Attention, Company C. Members of Company Care ordered tobe at their armory on Saturday, August 14th, at 4 o’clock 4. u » ready to leave for the encampment at Santa Cruz. By order. Gro, A. Nurext, all-td Capt. Oomd’y. UNION :-: HOTE ay lain Street, Nevada City. J. A. NORTHWAY, PROPRIETOR A son, San Francisco, . Mrs. Roberta, Stanford, Mra. Alford, & J. H. Shortridge, Wheatland, L. Beois, St Louis, . P. Westland, City, ’ > Claudius, San Francisco, . A. Mach, Mrs. F. W. Foss, Berkeley, George W. Nivens, Newcastle, James Murphy, You Bet, Charles Redmond, Chicago, Don. ©. Ray, Cornwallis, E. 8. Fiaber, “ F. Johuson, Jamestown. haha Daal BORN, At Sam Francisco, August 8th, to th Lwife of E. J. DeSabla, a son . At Grass Valley, August 10th, t "Theodore Dorsey and wife, a son. ” At. Santa Barbara, August 10th, t Dr. J. B. Saxby and wife, : son, . _ $FoOoo:?2 for good word-guessers. You must send in your yellow tickets and words by August 31st—the soone: you begin, the bigger you; ‘chances at the prize. Rules of contest published in lar advertisement about the first and msi, of each month. A2s Furnished Rooms. 5 Three’ or four furnished rooms, suitable for housekeeping and with a well of water on the porch, are offered for rent. Inquire at this office. al0-lw —PLAZA— LIVERY AND FEED STABLE. . ae a William & Thomas Harry, Propictors, @ueoessors to T. H. Mooney.) Wwepsteanconratas guano you county. J d. id night. want a stylis rig give usa call. companies them as far ss Lose Angeles. . to her home at Virginia Oity today. She by Mr. Bowden,. who will make a tour of the lakes before reworks,Grass Valley,caused’ “} by. Spontaneous: combustion, but was In the case of Mrs. Anderson, or McCormick, the District Attorney objected to discharging her bendsmen, holding that such a¢tion was unnecessary and unwarranted. He moved also to have the defendant appear at her preliminary examination. Juatice Trebileox did not change his previous orders in the case. % iia _ A North tloomfleld. Wedding, ‘Francis J. Le Due and Mise Lillie A. Gaus were married at North Bloom: field on Sunday by Rev. J. Tamblyn. Miss Alvina Gaus wus. brideamaid and Yesterday George Danforth end his two young sonia. were loading wood at Round ¥ when as one of the ‘boys was about'to pick up a stick. of ‘wood a rattleanake struck at him but. patched. It was three fect long: and had ten rattles, W. H. Tuttle of the Ow: Sazoon, Nevada City, has secured the Agency for Pabst’s celebrated Milwaukee lager beer, which he will serve in first-class Style in bottles and glass, at popular ‘prices, j22-tf. Money Saved is Money Earned. EST. IN 1860 BY N. P. BROWN & CO. CP + * ‘Jeremiah Murphy died at Washing. ‘tou yesterday of heart disease. He ‘was an old resident of that place, aged feventy years, and an uncle of “Bat” und Joba Murphy of Washington. The funeral took place here today from the Catholic Church. HOS Scena ¢ Crazed by Morphine. W. H. Barrows, the morphine fiend, brook Hotel in Grass Valley last night. He broke the window glass in his room, smashed the water pitcher, tore the bed covers and damaged tbe furniture. He had the door locked and the officers _ had to enter the room. through a wina er dow. He was taken to the calaboose up. Acharge‘of disturbing and have the beat wishes of their many ‘the peace was booked against him. , friends. Miao Thies morning he was sentenced to 90 i Killed a Rats See’ ‘days in the county jail. —_—_ GREAT CLEARANCE SALE Which Will Last for 16, Days--At the fell short. The snake was quickly dis. Palace Dry Goods Store: As wedo not intend to keep any goods over this season we will sacrifice everything there is in the store for OasH, as our immense fall stock will soon arrive. from the East and we are now ready to give the people the benefit of the greatest bargains that were ever before offered im Nevada county in order to make room for our new stock. ; Do not fail to miss this Grand Olearance Sale at the Palace Dry Goods N. S. PICNIC! (September ‘ G* to F. Pe HUNT'S and Leave 20 cents over, ¥ . Store of ie yo ° Ros: All work fivet-clese, "f@P-Two Berbers No ENBERG BRros., waiting, . jy7 Jal Broad Street, Nevada City. G. W. ~ PICNIC! Ae. GLENBROOK :: PARK . —ON— ADMISSION DAY. 9th, 1897.) bids. JOHN C. NILON, C Bids will be received for the privileges of conducting the bar, ice cream stand, restaurant, and any or all games, up to SATURDAY, SEPT EMBER 4th. The Committee reserves the right to reject any or all Address all bids to. hairman of Committee. MANUFACTU RERS OF SODA, SARSAPARILLA, GINGER: ALE, MINERAL WATER, ORANGE AND CHAMPAGNE CIDER, CEL™RY AND IRON. Nevada Cv.aty Ageuts For Bee = ffaelo Beer. Se THE MONARCH OF ALL BEERS. Try Our Celebrated SYPHON SODA Private Families Supplied. Factory Corner Spring and Pine Streets. GRAND REDU LADIES’ CTION SALE ey . ae a , MISSES’ GENT’S ae a fd FINE SHOES, + For the next two weeks I will offer you big bargains, By coming early you will get vour pick before the sizes are broken,. THIS IS NO FAKE esevge Sea ei nll Ae But it is a Goenuine:Bargaingsale. ening. F. J. WHITE, On_Broap St.,.Near City Hat. * DANIEL & POWELL,~ Sa a al

4 << I gee _ who lately arrived bere from the State .” at'e point 25 feet from the mouth 0: time to turn ina fire alarm from any Pras or eee: ey BROWN & CALKINS. N, P. BROWN. Fifty Cents Per Month. . A Preigt and a Passe Entered at the Postofiice at Nevada City Class matter, : BRIEF MENTION, Hinor Notes and Comments of Local: PO uamyeaana ad ex P. G. Scaiden, the groceryman, received a carload of fine potutoes today. ' Grant. Dorsey’s condition is improving and he will probably be all right in a few days. . George Adair way out hunting yesterday near the Central House and killed a fine buck deer, Electric lights were put in at Glenbrook Park today, in. the dance _ pavilion, bar and other places. The morning train to the circus took 80 grown persons and 40 children ftom this city. » Charles Maddrill, lately of this cily, is putting up a building at North San Juan and will open a grocery store: Fred Cooper is having a large barn built on Piety Hill near Cooper Bros,’ lumber yard, A number of fine horses. arrived at Glenbrook Park today from Sacramento to take part in the races next week, : The uvew ten-inch pump rods furnished by M. L. & D. Marsh for the Brunswick mine are said to be of the best quality of material and as fine as any ever cut inthe county. L. L. Myers and ‘Richard Thomas, of the “Malakoff mine, near Bloomfield, have bonded a quartz ledge adjoining the Boss mine, uear Sweetland. Prospecting work will soon begin: Next Friday a contract will be let to sink the main shaft at the Reddik mine 100 feet deeper. The Reddik is situated two miles and # half:from this city, on the Blue Tent road. _ Edward Harris of Hill’s Flat was ar-. rested at Grass Valley last night on a charge of battery. He struck a Chinaman over the head with a stick of wcod. Harris was sentenced this morn_ ing to serve 120 days in the county jail. G. J. Schmidt and Charles W. Hil) leave tonight or early in the morning for a camping trip to thé: lakes and to sierra Valley. They are well equipped and prepared to have @ good time.. © Albert Cook has sold his barber shop at the Union Hotel to George Stevens, of Washington. Mr. Cook intends , g0inz to the Klondyke country. : ‘ 5 Ooo eee b Klondyke. _ A dispatch from Redding says that J. B. and R. B. Graves. boarded the. overland train last night having in their possession $42,000 in gold, the result of four days’ work on Morrison Galch, a tributary of Coffee creek beyond Corville in Trinity county. They have been mining on the gulch for the past year and have found several pockets, One yielded $4000 and others] from $8 to $300. August 4th they found their tunnel and 12 feet from the surface, a large pocket of «pure gold. In four days they took out 168 pound: avoirdupois weight. The largest piece was three feet long, two feet wide anc. five inches thick. Great care was take: but it was broken in getting it out. The Klondyke region is not in it witl such mines, and the above statemen: only proves once more that . Californi: . : is the richest gold country in the world. Denying the Marrlage. At Los Angeles Monday Judge Aller appointed Jno. T. Jones administrator The ‘attorneys representing Mr. Jones sprang a new point by adding to their petition a-denial of any niarriage having existed between Mrs. Louisa Oreede and the tate N. OC. Something to Remember. People who bave océasion’ at any _0f the boxes should remember to pull 36TH YRAR—No. 11383” : SCRIPT,. @ é ENGINEER GEARY KILLED IN -. landlady, an impoverished lodger and {a bottle of carbolic acid were the priny gether This Sade i Aftemoo, s ~~ THR SMASH UP, A Mob Breaks Intoa County Jail After a Prisoner. MRS. SHURTE AND TWO SONS PERISH IAPR Cat His. Wife’s Throat and Then Shot _ Himself, The Steamer Topeka Arrires From Alaska With the Crew of . the Mexice. Special to the DAILY TRANSCRIPT. Ratal Railroad. Collision. Sacramento, August: 11.—This :-afternoon at 1: 30°o'clock a serious railroad collision occurred in the yard at Marysville between a freight train from Oroville and a passenger’ train’ hound for Oroville. Both engines were badly damaged and the trains derailed. Engineer Geary was killed. He has a wife and daughter living in this city. Hung bya Mob. AsHevitte, N. O., August 11.—A_ mob of citizens broke in the doors atthe county jail last night to . get Bob Brackett, the colored: man: who assaulted Miss Henderson. They found that the negro had been spirited . away by. the deputies. Some of the’ mob pursued the officers and overtaking them took Brackett and hung him. The Governor has been called on to: erder put the militia. as io ae Died From Suffocation.: -ABLINGTON, Oregon, August 12.-—The dwelling of C. A. Shurte was burned about midnight and Mrs. Shurte and two sons perished, the smoke suffocating them. Mr. Shurte made a heroic effort to save his family but could not. [t is feared that he will lose his reason. A woman'in the second story’ of. the -house jumped from a window and ‘was saved, ; " Mader and Snicide, Oxioaco, August 11.—Charles Clifford nurdered his wife today: by dutting her *hroat with a razor and then ‘Bhot:himself.” Olifford wasa ‘baker, aud’ the tragedy, happened at his home. ‘It is ‘said that he was jealous. of a policenan who had been to his wife, From Alaska, . Spatrie, August 11th.—The amer Topeka arrived this morning . with the srew of the Mexico, which was wrecked near Sitka. The captain is‘ reticent sbout the accident which occurred last Thursday morning. From; the time the vessel struck the rocks until she sunk beneath the waves was about two ‘hours. The captain and pilot were the iast to leave her. Another Tragedy.. Prrrssuras, Aug. 11.—A hard-hearted cipals in a tragedy here yesterday. Alvin Baldwin lived in the boarding house of Mrs. Kate Hildebrandt. For a long time he had not been in a flourishing financial condition and had ran behind in his board bill. _Despairing of getting out of bis landlady’s debt, mude love to her and asked her to marry him. Mrs. Hildebrandt did not regard the proposal favorable. She ‘Seemed to think that she would rather have Baldwin’s money than himself. So she said that she would not listen to him until he had first paid her all he owed. A short time later Baldwin was trouble. The system is in working . ' = found in his room dead, a partly empty carbolic acid bottle beside him telling _. Russia in 1867, At that time the Polly _[ 9nd the flesh fél! off in chunks as it paying attentions Chances in Olt Rotten Hulks, SRatrix, Augast 11.—The steamer Eliza Anderson, an old-fashioned sidewheeler, buiit in Portland, Oregon, in dyke, via St. Michaels, with 150 passengers. She is:a wooden verse) and for sixteen years was out of service, one year of which time she was lying at the bottom of the sound. The Eliza Anderoke, the latter having in tow the small steamer Merwin, the schooner W. J. Bryan, and the dismantled steamer Polly, which will be used/as a barge on the Yukon river, plying between Daw‘son City and St. Michaels. No one ‘knows how old the Polly is. Her original name was. “Politkofeky,” and she was included in the purchase of Alaska by the United States from was a Russian gun boat, located at States to the Port Blakeley Mil) Gomnearly 4000 miners have sailed from Seattle for Yukon and about 2000 more have sailed from other points north and south, ; } Dead in a, Furnace Tank. . Brumenam, Ale, August 11.—Early yesterday morning a negro boy passing by a sloss furnace near Birmingham saw the body of a white man floating in the large open water tank at that place. When the body was taken out it was discovered to be that of J. F. Webb, a painter. In the tank were a new pair of women’s shoes and also a’ pair of men’s, [he body was cooked, was drawn from the vat. Webb was last seen alive the night before on. his way home, with two pairs of shoes unThe sloss furnace is somewhat out of his way, a fact that makes his friends suspect he was murdered and his body oe into the tank. Pomped Her Full of Wind. Prrrspurc, August 11.— Mrs. Geo. Ruthman, of Beaver Falls, heard a peculiar noise on the back porch of ber residence. She found her two sons, one aged 7 and the other 1 year old ina corner. The baby was on his back. The elder brother had inserted the tube of a.bicycle pump in the baby’s mouth and \was filling him with wind as fast as he\could work the pump. ‘The infant was unconscious and its little stomach’.was inflated like a balloon. . The mether: pulled the tube from the child’s‘mouth and the air followed with a Sharp sound like the exhaust of an air brake on a railway train. The baby recovered consciousness. Secretary Bliss Gives Warning. Wasiinoton, August 11.—Secretary Bliss has taken cognizance of the rush tothe Klondyke gold fleids and Alaska and has issued the following warning to the general public: ‘ “To.\whom it may concern: In view of information received at this Department'that persons with 2000 tons. of baggage and freight.are now waiting at the entrance of White Horse Pass iu Alaska for an opportunity to cross the mountains to the Yukon River, and that many more are preparing to join them, I deem it necessary to call the attention of all who contemplate making that trip to the exposure, privations, sufferings' and danger incidént thereto at this advanced period ‘of the season, even if they should succeed: in crossing the mountains. E “To reach Dawson City, when over the Pass, seven hundred miles of difficult navigation on the Yukon River, without adequate means of transportation, will still be before them, and it is doubtfal if the journey can be completed. before’ the river is closed with ice. : “Iam moved to draw public notice to these conditions: by the gravity of the possible consequences to people detained in the mountainous wilderness during five or six months of an Arctic Winter, where no relief can reach them however great the need. *O. N. BLISS, jSecretary of the Interior.” _ -Howe Dead. Lonvon, August 11—Dr. Walsham Howe, author of the Queen’s jubilee hymn, Bishop of Wakefield, ‘died in “. publication in their papers of the famthe early. fifties, left today for Klon‘80n will be convoyed by the tug HolySitka. She was later sold by the United pany on Pnget Sound. Up to this date . der his arm, one of them for his wife. . have a gold currency: A circular issued from that date it ‘pce nind to ae Med 8 irass Valley last evening. This morn' . month, and to pay a fine of five yen, for ing they examined the mine and noted _. insulting the Ministers of State, by the. the progrees of work there and lett “on ous “Song. of March.” The Japanese as i the export duty, 6, _ Boston, August 11.—President Macey f the Fitchburg railway died suddenly . yesterday afernoon. = ‘ Tt has been discovered that a big defalcation has occurred in the office of the company, It was considered 4 strange coincidence that Auditor Anthony should suddenly die the very day that experts began an examination of the books, and it is considered cey should die suddenly the very day the defalcation was nounced, : eo ~ PERSONAL POINTERS, J, O. Dodge is ap from Anburn. K. Olsen is over from Towa Hill.. Ed Clymo is over from . William Maltman left this morning G. W. Morris of Newcastle is here a visit. : : J. Murphy came over from You Bet last evening.

Henry Hosken has returned from @ trip to the Bay. 3 : Mrs. Richards of Lone Pine will leave for her home Friday. Mrs. H. Williamson is visi friends at Sacramento. : _ J.L, Beois of St. Lonis arrived here on last evening’s: train. ‘Mrs. 8. W. Fous.ot Berkeley arrived here last evening ona visit, Miss Florence Snow of You Bet. is . here on a visit to her sister. L, A. Gross, the mining man, arrived here from Sacramento yesterday. -Elweli Holland has gone toSan Francisco to attend a business college. down from North Bloomfield today. M. Bestandig and W. C. Brown of San Francisco are in towu, Captain George Nihell will. leave tomorrow for Santa Cruz. . F. Johnson of Jamestown camé in on last evening’s train. ‘Miss Lizzie Richards left Saturday to resume her duties as teacher of the} Globe school, Lime Kiln district. L. A. Gross and W. H. Jones ‘of Sacramento came in on last evening’s train. ‘Mrs. B. Lutz returned home last evening from a visit to San Francisco. Charles Schutz of San Francisco came in on the morning train. Charles 0. McIver of Sam: Francisco arrived here last e morning for the Empire mine in Sierra county, eS , Mrs. OC. E. Mulloy has rétnrned from a visit to San Francisco and Oakland. Harry Evans, who has been’ visiting at San Francisco, has returned® home: journing at Blue Canyon,Placer county: C. Redmond, D. C. Ray ané@ E. 8. Fisher of Chicago arrived here on. last evening’s train. . Mrs. J. Schmidt Sr., who has been: to San Prancisco for a visit, returned home last evening, Albert Keller, who now resides at Graniteville with bia, father, is here spending a few days, , Mrs. Lizzie Valentine and daughter Miss Blinor, left today for a visit to relatives at Oakland. ‘ Mrs. 8S. Allen left on the noon train for Pacific Grove for a visit to friendg. J. McIntosh left on the noon train for Sacramento: Misses Ruby and Lella Hyer retarned yesterday from a visit to Pleasant Vatley. P. Claudius of San Francisco ie here in the interests of the Cyrus Noble Whisky, for which 4. Isoard & Son are’ agentsi Mrs. Henry Lane and children, who have been making an extended visit at San Francisco, returned home. last evening. Mrs. E.0. Huntingon arrived at San Francisco last night from New York. She intends coming to this city seon to open ‘up the ola Banner mine. _ James Rosewall, wife and mother, Mrs, A. Rosewall, left on the noon train for a pleasure trip to Sap -FranIsaac White and wife of Illinois, who} have been visiting Mr. White's brother, left yesterday for their home. William White and daughter, Miss Minnie, acthe story of the manuer of his death. Treland yesterday. next Japan will ill pay gold for Bank Tbe, pabllbere ad Government bas decided to totally!’ . . Afire equally suspicious that President MaConcise Chronic, of Various; Rolls’ for Gold Valley. us Mrs. L. L. Myers and daughter came} Frank Worthington and wife-are: so-} * turning home. " ere Distinguished Visitors. _ J. Ls, Flood, W. L. Fritz, James E. Wash and R. V. Dey, whoare interested ‘. in the Allison Ranch mine, arrived at the noon train for San Francisco, uy t Spontaneous Combustion. wi today at Sparks’ carpet-cles quickly extinguished. The fire started in @ pile of old waste and rags that were saturated with furniture polish and turpentine. It was a close call for ® conflagration. : Advertised Letters. . ‘The following ia a list of the letters: Temaining in the Postoffice at Nevada City, August llth:aac Russell Carli ff not. called for in fifteen days letters will be sent tothe dead letter office. Parties calling for any: of these letters will Please say “advertised,” and pay a fee of one cent for each letter. J. E. CARR, Postmaster: Hear My Complaint. Tam no longer sweet. In —_— time I was made clean and weet , By Mr. B. B. in his cosy retreat. Now Ihave grown old Iam sour as sour can be, Never to be made Sweet"again. See! ; VINEGAR. Opposite Fire House, Broad street. Attention, Company C. Members of Company Care ordered tobe at their armory on Saturday, August 14th, at 4 o’clock 4. u » ready to leave for the encampment at Santa Cruz. By order. Gro, A. Nurext, all-td Capt. Oomd’y. UNION :-: HOTE ay lain Street, Nevada City. J. A. NORTHWAY, PROPRIETOR A son, San Francisco, . Mrs. Roberta, Stanford, Mra. Alford, & J. H. Shortridge, Wheatland, L. Beois, St Louis, . P. Westland, City, ’ > Claudius, San Francisco, . A. Mach, Mrs. F. W. Foss, Berkeley, George W. Nivens, Newcastle, James Murphy, You Bet, Charles Redmond, Chicago, Don. ©. Ray, Cornwallis, E. 8. Fiaber, “ F. Johuson, Jamestown. haha Daal BORN, At Sam Francisco, August 8th, to th Lwife of E. J. DeSabla, a son . At Grass Valley, August 10th, t "Theodore Dorsey and wife, a son. ” At. Santa Barbara, August 10th, t Dr. J. B. Saxby and wife, : son, . _ $FoOoo:?2 for good word-guessers. You must send in your yellow tickets and words by August 31st—the soone: you begin, the bigger you; ‘chances at the prize. Rules of contest published in lar advertisement about the first and msi, of each month. A2s Furnished Rooms. 5 Three’ or four furnished rooms, suitable for housekeeping and with a well of water on the porch, are offered for rent. Inquire at this office. al0-lw —PLAZA— LIVERY AND FEED STABLE. . ae a William & Thomas Harry, Propictors, @ueoessors to T. H. Mooney.) Wwepsteanconratas guano you county. J d. id night. want a stylis rig give usa call. companies them as far ss Lose Angeles. . to her home at Virginia Oity today. She by Mr. Bowden,. who will make a tour of the lakes before reworks,Grass Valley,caused’ “} by. Spontaneous: combustion, but was In the case of Mrs. Anderson, or McCormick, the District Attorney objected to discharging her bendsmen, holding that such a¢tion was unnecessary and unwarranted. He moved also to have the defendant appear at her preliminary examination. Juatice Trebileox did not change his previous orders in the case. % iia _ A North tloomfleld. Wedding, ‘Francis J. Le Due and Mise Lillie A. Gaus were married at North Bloom: field on Sunday by Rev. J. Tamblyn. Miss Alvina Gaus wus. brideamaid and Yesterday George Danforth end his two young sonia. were loading wood at Round ¥ when as one of the ‘boys was about'to pick up a stick. of ‘wood a rattleanake struck at him but. patched. It was three fect long: and had ten rattles, W. H. Tuttle of the Ow: Sazoon, Nevada City, has secured the Agency for Pabst’s celebrated Milwaukee lager beer, which he will serve in first-class Style in bottles and glass, at popular ‘prices, j22-tf. Money Saved is Money Earned. EST. IN 1860 BY N. P. BROWN & CO. CP + * ‘Jeremiah Murphy died at Washing. ‘tou yesterday of heart disease. He ‘was an old resident of that place, aged feventy years, and an uncle of “Bat” und Joba Murphy of Washington. The funeral took place here today from the Catholic Church. HOS Scena ¢ Crazed by Morphine. W. H. Barrows, the morphine fiend, brook Hotel in Grass Valley last night. He broke the window glass in his room, smashed the water pitcher, tore the bed covers and damaged tbe furniture. He had the door locked and the officers _ had to enter the room. through a wina er dow. He was taken to the calaboose up. Acharge‘of disturbing and have the beat wishes of their many ‘the peace was booked against him. , friends. Miao Thies morning he was sentenced to 90 i Killed a Rats See’ ‘days in the county jail. —_—_ GREAT CLEARANCE SALE Which Will Last for 16, Days--At the fell short. The snake was quickly dis. Palace Dry Goods Store: As wedo not intend to keep any goods over this season we will sacrifice everything there is in the store for OasH, as our immense fall stock will soon arrive. from the East and we are now ready to give the people the benefit of the greatest bargains that were ever before offered im Nevada county in order to make room for our new stock. ; Do not fail to miss this Grand Olearance Sale at the Palace Dry Goods N. S. PICNIC! (September ‘ G* to F. Pe HUNT'S and Leave 20 cents over, ¥ . Store of ie yo ° Ros: All work fivet-clese, "f@P-Two Berbers No ENBERG BRros., waiting, . jy7 Jal Broad Street, Nevada City. G. W. ~ PICNIC! Ae. GLENBROOK :: PARK . —ON— ADMISSION DAY. 9th, 1897.) bids. JOHN C. NILON, C Bids will be received for the privileges of conducting the bar, ice cream stand, restaurant, and any or all games, up to SATURDAY, SEPT EMBER 4th. The Committee reserves the right to reject any or all Address all bids to. hairman of Committee. MANUFACTU RERS OF SODA, SARSAPARILLA, GINGER: ALE, MINERAL WATER, ORANGE AND CHAMPAGNE CIDER, CEL™RY AND IRON. Nevada Cv.aty Ageuts For Bee = ffaelo Beer. Se THE MONARCH OF ALL BEERS. Try Our Celebrated SYPHON SODA Private Families Supplied. Factory Corner Spring and Pine Streets. GRAND REDU LADIES’ CTION SALE ey . ae a , MISSES’ GENT’S ae a fd FINE SHOES, + For the next two weeks I will offer you big bargains, By coming early you will get vour pick before the sizes are broken,. THIS IS NO FAKE esevge Sea ei nll Ae But it is a Goenuine:Bargaingsale. ening. F. J. WHITE, On_Broap St.,.Near City Hat. * DANIEL & POWELL,~ Sa a al